After President Joe Biden tweeted about his plan to sign a law that will codify Roe if his party wins enough seats in November, Catholic News Agency reported on the event, implying it could alienate Catholic voters.

“The final say about your right to choose rests with you,” Biden tweeted Wednesday. “If you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress will do their part. I’ll do my part. With your support, I will sign a law codifying Roe in January.” 

Biden gave a speech later that day, solidifying his position.

The Democratic National Committee speech at the Howard Theatre was all about abortion, as Democratic candidates are facing “uphill battles” in the polls, Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported.

Biden called the 2022 midterms “the most consequential election in history” in relation to Roe, CNA continued. Democrats currently hold the House and the Senate by very slim margins.

All 435 House seats are up for election, along with 35 seats in the Senate, this November, CNA said, adding that 36 governorships are also on the ballot.

Biden has called Republicans “extremists,” warning of a national abortion ban if Republicans take Congress. With Biden’s approval rating and popularity at an all-time low, CNA suggests Biden is pushing voters toward the issue of abortion in the last weeks before the election.

“Today in America, there are women who have been turned away from emergency rooms while having miscarriages, losing wanted pregnancies and told they need to wait until they are sicker before they get the care they need. Doctors and nurses fear they can face criminal charges,” Biden said.

Live-Action, a pro-life advocacy group, has reported that abortion laws within states, specifically since Roe was overturned, have all explicitly stated that treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies are still legal. Live-Action claims pro-choice advocates are attempting to “scare women” into believing the lie that they will not receive care from a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. Live-Action listed all 50 states’ abortion laws where this is clearly stated.

“Catholics are appalled by the unprecedented abortion extremism pursued by the nation’s second Catholic president,” CatholicVote President Brian Burch said in a release. “While Americans struggle with record inflation, the president of the United States has nothing to offer but a pledge to expand the right to violently destroy innocent unborn children – up until birth and for any reason.”

He called on American bishops to address these issues. “We need Church leaders to step up and make clear that no Catholic can support candidates or policies that would make America one of the most extreme abortion nations in the world,” he said.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed as an ends or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.” (No. 2271).

Madison Bishop Donald Hying has publicly gone on the record about Roe being overturned.

“After nearly half a century of federal legalized abortion, more than 65 million precious lives lost, and countless others enduring profound pain and suffering in the aftermath, today’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision effectively returns the question of abortion to the states, and is a long-awaited answer to decades of prayer and sacrifice by millions in our country,” he said after this June’s Supreme Court ruling, as reported by the Madison Catholic Herald.

"It offers us great hope for a deeper flourishing of human dignity,” he continued. “Many fewer lives will be lost to the grave injustice of abortion, which is the deliberate and direct killing of a human being, and a culture of life can begin to take root where it was previously not possible. It also offers the Catholic Church in the United States, and all those of good will who stand with us in upholding the sanctity of human life, the opportunity and privilege to redouble our efforts to accompany women and couples facing unexpected or difficult pregnancies, as well as supporting parents in their care for their sons and daughters.”